This is the most accurate model of what scientists now think the very first British man looked like Who is Cheddar Man? The complete human male fossil was discovered in 1903 in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset. He would have lived around 300 generations ago in the area - with some believing he still has ancestors living in Somerset.

We finally know what Cheddar Man looked like but how did he live? The Mesolithic Briton, whose DNA was studied by University College London and the Natural History Museum, would have found Somerset’s Mendip Hills very different in 8000BC.